"Gunpowder" was the first book I read in 2009, and while I liked it, the novella didn't really blow me away. I love Hill's short stories, but I'm still to be convinced by him at greater length.

I really like Neal Asher's stuff, and have three or so by him in the TBR pile, but as I don't review SF won't be getting to them any time soon unfortunately.

I'm going to add two more titles to my year's best list, both of which I've only just finished - "Slights" by Kaaron Warren (which Ross mentioned) and "The Darkening" by Stephen M. Irwin. Neither really grabbed me initially, hence the delayed finish, but once they picked up steam I was impressed. Warren's is a character study of a serial killer, while the Irwin is a supernatural novel that reads like a cross between "Sixth Sense" and "The Blair Witch Project", and it has giant spiders. I'll be reviewing both of them in the next BS, as part of a feature on Australian horror.

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